Tarefa de memória de trabalho visual: construção de um banco de itens

Abstract

Memory, a function that promotes acquisition, storage and recall of information, is a phenomenon present in many everyday situations. In emphasis on the present study, working memory is a skill responsible for activating and manipulating information in the mind, for a limited time, in order to reach a certain goal, being present in attitudes such as reading, mental reorganization of objects, mathematical operations, Demonstrating its importance in simple and even more complex actions. The construction of an instrument that allows the evaluation of this phenomenon becomes important and, in this sense, the objective of this study is the construction of a set of items for task of visual work memory in children. The study included 30 children, aged 7 to 11 years, evaluated using the BAICI instruments as exclusion criteria and the instrument created in the present study. Fourteen items were created, divided into two task blocks, with 7 items to evaluate Short Term Memory and 7 items and 2 contexts to evaluate Visual Work Memory. After the application of the constructed items, the analyzes were semantic, involving the understanding of the statements and constructed items and the perception and understanding of the images and contexts selected for the items. Doubts were found in the statement of block II, incorrect recognition of three images selected for the items and answers not expected in the task with the contexts. In general, the item bank is satisfactorily built, with only changes made to eliminate the doubts and biases found in the application, to finally complete and minimize the failures in the construction of the items.